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A57589	Sir Walter Raleigh's Sceptick, or speculations and Observations of the magnificency and opulency of cities, his Seat of government, and letters to the Kings Majestie, and others of qualitie : also, his demeanor before his execution.; Sceptick	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1651 (1651)	Wing R186A; ESTC R9285	29,117	153

the first sort of Men to wit of those that live by their own labour they have never been displeased where they have been suffered to enjoy the fruit of their own travels Meum Tuum Mine and Thine is all wherein they seek the certaintie and protection True it is that they are the Fruit-Trees of the Land which God in Deuteronomie commanded to be spared they gather honey and hardly enjoy the wax and break the ground with great labour giving the best of their grain to the easefull and idle For the second sort which are the Merchants as the first feed the Kingdom so do these enrich it yea their trades especially those which are forcible are not the least part of our Martial Policie as hereafter proved and to do them right they have in all ages and times assisted the Kings of this Land not onely with great sums of money but with great Fleets of Ships in all their enterprises beyond the seas The second have seldom or never offended their Princes to enjoy their trades at home upon tolerable conditions hath ever contented them for the injuries received from other Nations give them but the Commission of Reprisal they will either Right themselves or sit down with their own loss without complaint 3. The third sort which are the Gentrie of England these being neither seated in the lowest grounds thereby subject to the biting of every beast nor in the highest Mountains and thereby in danger to be torn with tempest but the Valleys between both have their parts in the inferiour Justice and being spred over all are the Garrisons of good order throughout the Realm Sir WALTER RALEIGH'S LETTERS Sir Walter Raleigh's Letter to Mr Secretary Winwood before his Iourney to Guiana Honourable SIR I Was lately perswaded by two Gentlemen my ancient Friends to acquaint your Honour with some offers of mine made heretofore for a Journey to Guiana who were of opinion That it would be better understood now than when it was first propounded which advice having surmounted my dispair I have presumed to send unto your Honour the Copies of those Letters which I then wrote both to his Majestie and to the Treasurer Cecill wherein as well the reasons that first moved me are remembered as the objections by him made are briefly answered What I know of the riches of that place not by hear-say but what mine eyes hath seen I have said it often but it was then to no end Because those that had the greatest trust were resolved not to believe it not because they doubted the Truth but because they doubted my Disposition towards themselves where if God had blessed me in the enterprise I had recovered his Majesties favour and good opinion Other cause than this or other suspition they never had any Our late worthy Prince of Wales was extream curious in searching out the Nature of my offences The Queens Majestie hath informed her self from the beginning The King of Denmark at both times of his being here was throughly satisfied of my innocency they would otherwise never have moved his Majestie on my behalf The Wife the Brother and the Son of a King do not use to sue for men suspect but Sir since they all have done it out of their charitie and but with references to me alone Your Honour whose respect hath onely relation to his Majesties service strengthened by the example of those Princes may with the more hardness do the like being Princes to whom his Majesties good estate is no less dear and all men that shall oppugne it no less hatefull than to the King himself It is true Sir That his Majestie hath sometimes answered That his Councel knew me better than he did meaning some two or three of them And it was indeed my infelicitie for had his Majestie known me I had never been here where I now am or had I known his Majestie they had never been so long there where they now are His Majestie not knowing of me hath been my ruin and his Majesties misknowing of them hath been the ruin of a goodly part of his estate but they are all of them now some living and some dying come to his Majesties knowledge But Sir how little soever his Majestie knew me and how much soever he believed them yet have I been bound to his Majestie both for my Life and all that remains of which but for his Majestie nor Life nor ought else had remained In this respect Sir I am bound to yield up the same life and all I have for his Majesties service to die for the King and not by the King is all the ambition I have in the world Walter Raleigh Sir Walter Raleighs's Letter to his Wife from Guiana Sweet Heart I Can yet write unto you but with a weak hand for I have suffered the most violent Calenture for fifteen days that ever man did and lived but God that gave me a strong heart in all my adversities hath also now strengthened it in the hell-fire of heat We have had two most grievous sicknesses in our Ship of which fourtie two have died and there are yet many sick but having recovered the land of Guiana this 12 of November I hope we shall recover them We are yet two hundred men and the rest of our Fleet are reasonable strong strong enough I hope to perform what we have undertaken if the diligent care at London to make our strength known to the Spanish King by his Ambassadour have not taught the Spanish King to fortifie all the enterances against us howsoever we must make the Adventure and if we perish it shall be no honour for England nor gain for his Majestie to loose among many other an hundred as valiant Gentlemen as England hath in it Of Captain Baylies base coming from us at the Canaries see a Letter of Kemishes to Mr Skory of the unnatural weather storms and rains and winds He hath in the same letter given a touch of the way that hath ever been sailed in fourteen days now hardly performed in fourtie days God I trust will give us comfort in that which is to come In passage to the Canaries I stayed at Gomerah where I took water in peace because the Countrey durst not denie it me I received there of an English race a Present of Oranges Lemons Quinces and Pome-granates without which I could not have lived those I preserved in fresh sands and I have of them yet to my great refreshing Your son had never so good health having no distemper in all the heat under the Line All my servants have escaped but Crab and my Cook yet all have had the sickness Crofts and March and the rest are all well Remember my service to my Lord Carew and Mr Secretarie Winwood I write not to them for I can write of nought but miseries yet of men of sort we have lost our Serjeant Major Captain Pigott and his Lieuetenant Captain Edward Hastings who

that have traded to the Indies since his Majesties time knew that the Spaniards have flayed alive all the poor men which they have taken being but Merchant men what death and cruel torment shall we expect if they conquer us certainly they have hitherto failed grosly being set out thence as we were both for number time and place Lastly to make an Apologie for not working the Myne although I know his Majestie expects whom I am to satisfie so much as my self having lost my son and my estate in the Enterprise yet it is true that the Spaniards took more care to defend the passage leading unto it than they did the Town which by the Kings instructions they might easily do the Countreys being Aspera Nemosa But it is true that when Capt. Kemish found the River low and that he could not approch the Banks in most places near the Myne by a Mile and where he found a discent a volley of Muskets came from the woods upon the Boat and slew two Rowers and hurt six others and shot a valiant Gentleman of Captain Thornix of which wound he languisheth to this day He to wit Kemish following his own advice thought that it was in vain to discover the Myne for he gave me this for an excuse at his return that the Companies of English in the Town of S. Thome were not able to defend it against the daily and nightly assaults of the Spaniards that the passages to the Mynes were thick and unpassable woods and that the Myne being discovered they had no men to work it did not discover it at all for it is true the Spaniards having two gold Mynes near the Town the one possessed by Pedro Rodrigo de Paran the second by Harmian Frotinio the third of silver by Captain Francisco for the want of Negroes to work them for as the Indians cannot be constrained by a Law of Charls the Fifth so the Spaniards will not nor can endure the labour of those Mynes whatsoever the Bragadochio the Spanish Ambassador saith I shall prove under the Proprietors hand by the Custom-Book and the Kings Quinto of which I recovered an Ingot or two I shall also make it appear to any Prince or State that will undertake it how easily those Mynes and five or six more of them may be possessed and the most of them in those parts which never have as yet been attempted by any nor by any passage to them nor ever discovered by the English French or Dutch But at Kemish his return from Orinoque when I rejected his counsel and his course and told him that he had undone me and wounded my credit with the King past recoverie he slew himself for I told him that seeing my son was slain I cared not if I had lost an hundred more in opening of the Myne so my credit had been saved for I protest before God had not Capt. Whitney to whom I gave more countenance than to all the Captains of my Fleet run from me at the Granadoes and carried another ship with him of Captain Wollestons I would have left my body at S. Thomes by my sons or have brought with me out of that or other Mynes so much Gold-oar as should have satisfied the King I propounded no vain thing what shall become of me I know not I am unpardoned in England and my poor estate consumed and whether any Prince will give me bread or no I know not I desire your Honour to hold me in your good opinion to remember my service to my Lord of Arrundel and Pembrook to take some pitie on my pour Wife to whom I dare not write for renewing her sorrow for her son and beseech you to give a copie of this to my Lord Carew for to a broken mind a sick bodie and weak eyes it is a torment to write many Letters I have found many things of importance for discovering the state and weakness of the Indies which if I live I shall hereafter impart unto your Honour to whom I shall remain a faithfull servant Walter Raleigh Sir Walter Raleigh's Letter sent to his Wife Copied out of his own hand-writing I Was loath to write because I know not how to comfort you and God knows I never knew what sorrow meant till now All that I can say to you is that you must obey the will and providence of God and remember that the Queens Majestie bare the loss of Prince Henry with a magnanimous heart and the Ladie Harrington of her son Comfort your heart dearest Bess I shall sorrow for us both I shall sorrow the less because I have not long to sorrow because not long to live I refer you to Mr. Secretarie Winwoods Letter who will give you a copie of it if you send for it therein you shall know what hath passed I have written that Letter for my brains are broken and it is a torment for me to write and especially of misery I have desired Mr. Secretarie to give my Lord Carew a copie of his Letter I have clensed my ship of sick men and sent them home I hope God will send us somewhat before we return You shall hear from me if I live from the New-found land where I mean to make clean my ships and revictual for I have Tobacco enough to pay for it The Lord bless and comfort you that you may bear patiently the death of your valliant son This 22. of March from the Isle of Christophers yours Walter Raleigh Post-script I Protest before the Majestie of God That as Sir Francis Drake and Sir Iohn Hawkins died heart-broken when they failed of their enterprise I could willingly do the like did I not contend against sorrow for your sake in hope to provide somewhat for you and to comfort and releive you If I live to return resolve your self that it is the care for you that hath strengthened my heart It is true that Kemish might have gone directly to the Myne meant it but after my sons death he made them beleive he knew not the way and excused himself upon want of water in the River and counterfeiting many impediments left it unfound When he came back I told him he had undone me and that my credit was lost for ever he answered That when my son was lost and that he left me so weak that he resolved not to find me alive he had no reason to enrich a companie of Rascals who after my sons death made no account of him He further told me that the English sent up into Guiana could hardly defend the Spanish town of S. Thome which they had taken and therefore for them to pass through thick woods it was impossible and more impossible to have victual brought them into the Mountains And it is true that the Governour Diego Polenego and other four Captains being slain whereof Wats slew one Plessington Wats servant and Iohn of Moroccoes one of his men slew other two I say five of them slain in the

themselves imply a Pardon But Master Attorney told him these words were not sufficient for that purpose Whereupon he desired the opinion of the Court to which the Lord Chief Justice replied it was no Pardon in Law Then began Sir Walter Raleigh to make a long description of the events and ends of his Voyage but he was interrupted by the Chief Justice who told him that it was not for any offence committed there but for his first fact that he was now called in question and thereupon told him That seeing he must prepare to die he would not add affliction to affliction nor aggravate his fault knowing him to be a man full of miserie but with the good Samaritane administer oyl and wine for the comfort of his distressed Soul You have been a General a great Commander imitate therefore that noble Captain who thrusting himself into the middest of a Battel cried aloud Mors me Expectat ego Mortem Expectabo as you should not contemn so to do nor should you fear death the one sheweth too much boldness the other no less cowardize so with some other few instructions the Court arose and Sir Walter was commited into the hands of the Sheriff of Middlesex who presently conveyed him to the Gate-house in Westminster Upon Thursday morning this Couragious although Committed Knight was brought before the Parliament-house where there was a Scaffold erected for his Beheading yet it was doubted over-night that he should be hanged but it fell out otherwise He had no sooner mounted the scaffold but with a chearfull Countenance and undaunted Look he saluted the Companie His Attire was a wrought Night-cap a Ruff band a hair-coloured Sattin Doublet with a black wrought Waste-coat under it a pair of black cut Taffety Breeches a pair of ash-coloured Silk Stockings a wrought black Velvet Night-gown putting off his Hat he directed his Speech to the Lords present as followeth My honourable Lords and the rest of my good friends that come to see me die Know that I much rejoyce that it hath pleased God to bring me from darkness to light and in freeing me from the Tower wherein I might have died in disgrace by letting me live to come to this place where though I lose my life yet I shall clear some false accusations unjustly laid to my charge and leave behind me a testimonie of a true heart both to my King and Countrey Two things there are which have exceedingly possest and provoked his Majesties indignation against me viz. A Confederacie or Combination with France and disloyal and disobedient words of my Prince For the first his Majestie had some cause though grounded upon a weak foundation to suspect mine inclination to the French faction for not long before my departure from England the French Agent took occasion passing by my house to visit me had some conference during the time of his abode onely concerning my voyage and nothing else I take God to witness Another suspition is had of me because I did labour to make an escape from Plymouth to France I cannot denie but that willingly when I heard a rumour That there was no hope of my life upon my return to London I would have escaped for the fafeguard of my Life and not for any ill intent or conspiracie against the State The like reason of suspition arose in that I perswaded Sir Lewis Steukly my Guardian to flee with me from London to France but my Answer to this is as to the other That onely for my safeguard and nought else was my intent as I shall answer before the Almightie It is alleadged That I feigned my self sick and by art made my bodie full of blisters when I was at Salisbury True it is I did so the reason was because I hoped thereby to defer my coming before the King and Councel and so by delaying might have gained time to have got my Pardon I have an Example out of Scripture for my warrant that in case of necessitie and for the safeguard of life David feigned himself foolish and mad yet was it not imputed to him for sin Concerning the second Imputation laid to my charge that I should speak scandalous and reprochfull words of my Prince there is no witness against me but onely one and he a Chimical French-man whom I entertained rather for his Jests than his Iudgement this man to incroach himself into the favour of the Lords and gaping after some great reward hath falsly accused me of Seditious speeches against his Majestie against whom if I did either speak or think a thought hurtfull or prejudicial the Lord blot me out of the book of Life It is not a time to flatter or fear Princes for I am a subject to none but Death therefore have a charitable conceit of me That I know to swear is an offence to swear falsly at any time is a great sin but to swear false before the presence of Almightie God before whom I am forthwith to appear were an offence unpardonable therefore think me not now rashly or untruly to confirm or protest any thing As for other objections in that I was brought perforce into England that I carried sixteen thousand pounds in money out of England with me more than I made known that I should receive Letters from the French King and such like with many Protestations he utterly denied FINIS Seeing Touching Hearing Smelling Tasting Scituation for Safety and Plenty Multitude of Inhabitants Religion Academies Courts of Justice Artificers Priledg The first 〈…〉 of Rome to allure stranges was Sanctuarie Triumps Husbandmen Merchant Gentry Two things Sir W. Raleigh accused of